Sacred 2:Strafe

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Once an Amazon warrior has attained this facility, she can fire a volley of arrows with amazing speed and precision, striking the same or multiple targets one after another. When used with a melee weapon becomes Impale: Amazon warriors are well known for the ferocity of their attacks. An experienced warrior is able to focus her fury and deliver a single powerful blow. This is a Weapon Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Huntress Talents Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 35-37 (Wielding starting bow) Physical Multiplies all damage types of the equipped weapon. Has an innate bonus to attack rating Projectiles: 2 Regeneration Time: 8.2 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Bleeding - Chance to cause open wounds (physical damage over time) (24.7% + 0.3% per level). Magic Arrow - Converts physical damage to magic (50% + 1% per level). Silver Breach - Chance to bypass enemy armor (25% + 0.5% per level). Trail - Projectiles will home in on the target. Gold Mangle - Chance to cause mortal wounds, which decrease the target's base hitpoints briefly and cause bleeding damage (29% + 0.2% chance per level). Volley - Adds two more missiles to Strafe. Overall damage is increased by 60% but split between the four projectiles.

Strafe

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - indirectly, it increases weapon damage and critical chance, thus making Strafe/Impale hit harder, also allows modification points.

• Huntress Talents Focus - reduces regeneration time and allows for higher level combat art without penalty, allows for modification points.

• Any weapon lore (such as Ranged Weapons) - will indirectly increase this combat art's execution speed, damage and chance to hit, and will allow the equippng of higher level weapons used to execute this combat art.

• Concentration - directly improves regeneration time

• Combat Discipline will increase its Damage and reduce its regeneration time if this Combat Art is placed within a combo. This increase in Damage is direct; it increases the +xx% that the CA adds to base damage.

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of the secondary damage effects triggered by Strafe: Weaken and Open Wounds

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Strength will increase damage for melee weapons, and chance to hit

• Dexterity will increase damage for ranged weapons (and some melee weapons), and chance to hit

• Intelligence will increase damage for for magic staves and wands

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

• Willpower will increase damage for Lightsabers

Usage Strategies

• If the initial target dies from the first hit, Strafe can automatically switch to a new opponent and launch the second hit.
• Volley would only be useful for ranged Amazons, as it will not affect melee weapons.
• Trail mod would not be especially useful for a blowpipe Amazon, because blowpipes hit almost instantly.

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Impale

When using a melee weapon, this combat art changes behavior from a multi-hit attack to one that delivers a single hard hit (Impale). The CA name and icon do not actually change, however.

Impale

Gallery

Strafe

Impale